Milano Contemporary

Half-day tour

Porta Nuova District

The Porta Nuova area, abandoned for over 50 years, is now one of the largest construction sites all over Europe and is fulfilling the historical business district of Milan with new tertiary buildings, luxury residences, commercial and cultural spaces, for a global area of about 350,000 sqm. The project developed by Hines is divided into three areas (Garibaldi, Varesine and Isola) which are connected by large central public park called The Library of the Trees.

The Bosco Verticale in Milan is a biological construction, which is in contrast with the technological approach of most of the contemporary buildings, in response to the issue of environmental sustainability. The project built at Porta Nuova consists of two residential towers 80-meters and 112-meters high, on which there are 900 trees. The buildings are clad with black panels, creating a neutral background stands to highlight the colors of the vegetation. White frosted glass panels on the balconies further articulate the façade.The Bosco Verticale won the “International Highrise Award” as the better tower of 2014.

Projects by: Boeri Studio
Year: 2014

Fondazione Feltrinelli

The project by Herzog and de Meuron redesigns a part of the city strongly characterized in the past by the presence of the Spanish walls and Porta Volta. The project is an intervention at an urban scale, with the body between viale Pasubio and via Crispi about 200 meters long. The volumes are defined by the repetition of a series of inclined portals in reinforced concrete, which take the shape of stereotyped buildings with a pitched roof, with the glass that closes the distance between the structural elements.

Projects by: Herzog & De Meuron
Year: 2016

City Life

In a park of 160.000 square meters is growing the new project of City Life designed by Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki and Daniel Libeskind. The area, in the site where there was the old fair, will be characterized by the presence of three skyscrapers, a museum, and residential blocks designed for a new way to live in the city; the Isozaki Tower is now the highest skyscreaper in Italy. The connection with the highways and the metro lines, the big park, the high quality of the buildings, will transform this area in one of the most attractive district of Milan.